Women In Presidential Elections

The topic I selected is on why American women vote in presidential elections. I would like to address the question as to why there is a gender gap between men and women voters? And which gender has a higher voter turnout? The gender gap has been an issue since the 1980’s, perhaps it just the sign of the times or the fact that women are just more concern with social issues or just more willing to vote. I choose this particular topic because I’m an American citizen that feels it is important that we practice our right to vote. I believe the voting turnout is a reflection of how women and men view politics. Overall, I want discuss a possible explanation. Perchance, when it comes to women voter’s legislators and politicians use social issues in
Senate Elections." The article observes how gender gaps effected the recent campaigns focusing on how campaign strategies may have mask the difference as to why there s a gender gap. The article, the analysis exit poll data; which indicated that when campaigns focused more on women issues, women where more likely to vote democratic. When analyzing campaign-advertising strategies the Heckmen selection method is used to examine variables to see whether candidates are running advertisements that sway a particular audience. I think this article, helps support my theory because if advertisers are just displaying women social issues then why wouldn’t a women feel the need to vote in an
Congress is more than simply an issue of equity, but will make a substantive policy difference. This article tests this hypothesis by analyzing the voting records of all representatives in the 103d Congress on a set of women's issues. It is their premise that women will not necessarily exhibit a more liberal ideology than their male counterparts on all issues; however, the more directly an issue affects women, the more likely it is that women will vote together across party lines. This article uses a few empirical studies to examine congress in the past years and points the amount of women that where elected. In their hypothesis they state that because of influences of women in politics more women are elected in us congress there are applications that could possibly influence how leiegtors vote on women’s issues. This article provides information that I believe correlates with the topic I selected by displaying a plausible theory that proves that women issues brings in women to vote vs